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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-26

Timid coyness is not only the right
but one of the sweetest charms of
maidens, and it is thus that they invite
approaches to their respect and conf
dence. But bashful man they cannot
respect. Modesty, courtesy, consider
alton, pointed.with manly self-assertive-
ness, are qualities they respect, and if
our young friend viii study to gain
these attributes we venture to say he
will not be long in finding sweet girl
who will gently encourage his advances
to friendship and affection Let him
be bold but gentle, respectful but ar
dent, and show by his manner that he
regards himself worthy . girls love
and strong enough to protect her with
il, and he will have no more trouble,
We assure him.-Nes0 York sam.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-26

Begging and all the forms incident
to it is perfect pest in Lisbon. The
nasals of the Portuguese are we'll
adapted to the woful lamentations
whined forth in tones to melt heart
of stone. Mendicancy is profession
over which these beggars are masters,
and no tragedian has studied closer his
part than have these. wretches
the misery they depict. Little
children, and some of them beau
tiful, are placed about the diff
ferent places of amusement by some
old crone who has hired them, and for
a mere pittance the little actress walls
forth her cry for penny. The day
over, the child carries her mite to the
brute who is her master. After night
fall, women with their features covered
will quietly approach you from the
shadow of some tree or doorway and
solicit aims. They claim to be of 70
spectacle birth and station, driven by
straitened circumstances to ask assist
ance of q stranger, yet too modest or
proud to expose their features. NesO
York Telegram
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-26

You played with edged tools this
time. I may have acted like fool
around you, but what then? A man
may fiirt and It's but an episode, soon
forgiven and almost as soon forgotten.
but woman's reputation hangs by the
merest thread. You may speak OF
charming womeh, Marjorie Dissane. A
charming, good, true woman is the
incest, best, and purest thing on the
face of this earth, but firt is none of
these"
I heard familiar voices in the hall,
and as turned around, Sara came run
ming into the parIor. There's my papa
now. aTakee, dear papa! Takee
Sara" cried the baby voice.
Frances followed her in more leis-
urely, deposited her bundles on the
table, looked curiously around, and
said: "What detained you, Egbert,
why did you not meet us?"
I embraced her in the good, old
fashioned way. "Your telegram said
tomorrow, my dear. but I'm heartily
glad you came tonight" Then, with
my arm around her, turned to Marjorie
Dissane. who stood looking on perfectly
dumbfounded. "We were Just speak
ing of charming women. Miss Dissane,
allow me to introduce you to my wife.
the most charming woman I have ever
known" Majorie Dissane bowed
haughtily and swept out of the room.
Frances looked curiously around, but,
bless her dear heart, said. never word
to this day. Some women would never
have done talking. Cad! But twas a
narrow escape. I feel foolish yet when
think of it. What if Frances had
come in ten minutes sooner! I solemly
swear I'll never look into another pair
of black eyes when my wife is out Of
town. CHICAGO Ledaer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-26
Talking to Ones Self.

If any person will carefully note the
manner of speech used by those given
to the habit of talking to themselves,
he will come to the conclusion that the
phrase is misleading. For proof OF
this assertion let it be remembered that
the talking" always takes some form
like the following: "Now, let me show
you" IF ever find you" "Noth-
ing of the sort; he is" II just cell
you" "Why! do you know" and
so on.
Thus it will be seen that the language
of the solitary talker takes the form of
address to another person. In the
greatest number of cases, the solitary
talker speaks only when mentally ex-
cited, and then his language is mix
ture of assertion, contradiction, and
vituperation. Now and again he is
merely explanatory, but whatever the
words he uses may be, it is plain that
he is always addressing himself to an
imaginary person.
Some rather amusing incidents are
told of persons given to this habit.
Two such approached each other one
Gay, ana 0aCu WIS COuF0TS1uS LII IOuu
tones with an imaginary individual.
"Sir?" queried one speaker, as he
paused for reply from the person of
his brain. II beg your pardon" said
the other at the same moment to the
imaginary individual with whom he was
arguing.
"The ordinations brought both men
out of their visionary disputes, and
with blush and mutual apologies they
continued their separate ways.
Some solitary takers are known to
be given to self-condemnation, and this
seems to contradict the assertion that
there is no such thing as talking. to
ones self. The question was put to
man who is given to condemning his
own past conduct in emphatic speech
when he gets alone.
"Dou you speak to YOURSELF"
"Not exactly" he replied, slowly. II
am at these times DR.. Jekyu denounc-
ing Mr.. Hyde, whom I consider the evil
person dominating me-"
Surely. upon Investigation, there
seems to be no such thing as talking
to ones self The Epoch.
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THE M1rgER.
By HENRY RICH.

grist on the hopper, the sun on the sill.
An heighoi
Lucky the lane that comes out at q mill,
An heigho!
Over his profit the honey-bee huns,
Out of his blanket the butterfly comes
An heighoi An height
The Doctor comes up on his mite OF mare.
An heighol
We agree this old world is all out Of repair,
An heigho!
But we leave il alone, in our neighborly chats
And b -oixes mess for my beggarly rats,
An heigho! An height
The SQUIRE o. late he rides double with care,
An O heighoi
Two months at q manager have left his NOW
bare
An heighol
he never calls for the foot of my score,
TILL it runs from the rafter clean down to the
floor.
An heigho! An heigh!
The Parson' s tne best o the back coated clan
An heighoi
There is wheat, he makes out, in the branniest
bran,
An a heigho!
He never grudges q grain OF my toll,
He has an eye for a shoal or foal,
An a hegho! An height
The suns at the gable, come hurry, old wheel,
An q heigho!
What say, my good widow, a coin in your meal?
An q heighol
Twas in your corn maybe, the Lord knows,
He tempers the lamb, forget how it goes.
An heighoi An heigh!
The greater the worry the lighter the gain.
An heighoi
The deeper the furrow the better the grain,
An heighol
The thicker the stubble the fuller the bin,
The darker without the lighter within,
And q heigho! An heigh!
There are haps in the air that minute may
bring,
An q heighoi
For cock is more sure of his head than a
king.
An heighoi
So sing out the days in my merry old mill,
grist in the hopper. the sun ut the sill,
An heishol An height
-Milliu1 World
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The Stsry q Irene Alston.

Some there are, borne to poverty. yet
endowed with the instinct Of Unsuitable
craving for knowledge and truth and
light; and these are urged irresistibly
through privations dire and over OBJ
stacles impossible to common folk, on
to the goal of qualification. Such a one
was that poor Finnish girl, the first wo-
man of her race to obtain the degree of
Phi. D., the story of whose trials and
triumphs is told in a recent book by
Fraulein Sohr.
Irene ASTON, as she tended her
fathers cattle in the "land of thou
sand lakes" dreamed and. pondered
over all the marvels of science and
learning which seemed forever sealed
book to her poverty and. ignorance.
learning to be wise. yet seeing no hope
in gray life of toll and struggle, at
last she prayed to die, that she might
reach sphere where her cravings
would be satisfied. A humane pastor,
divining her longing, sent her to q good
school, where she passed as fourth
among forty-six young girls at the age
of Is, though only prepared by her own
self-help. She took work in earnest
here, often sitting up all night thinking
over the days tasks while her COM
panions slept all round her, and after
ward when as day pupil she had to
provide her own meals, she sometimes
went to the classes fasting save for the
fresh snow she picked up and ate on
the way. For her father was totally
ruined, and she must soon leave school
and begin earning. For awhile she
bravely suppressed her longings, and
submitted to the drudgery of teaching.
yet never losing sight of the goal she
had long had at heart-her matricula-
ton. At last, having saving ga, with
the scantiest of luggage she journeyed
to Helsingfors, and in defiance of OPP
position, chiefly feminine, such as q
more advanced society can form no con-
ception of, Irene prepared for her or
deal. She paid her lodging in advance
for the whole winter (e3) and invested
in four loaves of the hard round rye
biscuit of Scandinavia and Finland,
which keeps many months, dividing
them methodically so that she had q
piece for each day till Christmas. In
the depth of winter she worked with
out fire, at temperature of 30 de-
grees. Celsius, kind professor,
taught her Latin, moved by her assur-
ance that unless she learned it she could
neither live content nor die happy.
Her progress was most rapid; she ma
circulated, taught awhile again for the
sake of her family, renewed her own
studies, took brilliant degree, and, at
last, recognized by her nation for what
she is, the dauntless pioneer of wo-
mans progress, she now lives honored
and appreciated, still educating her
brothers, still thirsting insatiably after
trI1th
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-26
Singular Incidents Relating to Discovered
Articles.

Going through the Green Park, Lon
don, one morning as soon as it was
opened I found a good brown silk UNI
brella with ivory handle lying on the
grass under a tree. I made it known
at the keepers lodge and gave my adj
dress, but no one claimed it. A few
days after, coming out of church in a
snow storm, I stumbled over some
thing soft. Looking down I saw a
dark mass on the path, which proved
to be warm wooden wrap Of rich
dark crimson, beautifully knitted and
finished. This was my constant COM
panion for years, and when worn out I
stuffed cushion with it.
Two or three Shetland wells that are
worn by infants came into my hands,
and parcel of school-books was found
in Birdcage Walk. Two of these hac
an address written in, and were duly
returned.
In the spring I was visiting near
Reading, and one fine Sunday after
noon 1 talked with Miss E. to the
lovely little church at Mapledurham,
going through the fieldpaths and along
short shady lanes in their first spring
beauty. About half way up one of
these lanes I picked up sixpence. Miss
E laughed, and said it would do
for the bag at church, when suddenly
she cried, go Janet!" and showed me
half a crown she had found in deep
rut. We looked about, and between
us found sixteen shillings and four
pence halfpenny in various coins; and
little further on, knife with four
blades and buckhorn handle. It
was pearly mile from any house, and,
though we made inquiry, no one
claimed either money or knife. Two
days after, on returning to London and
crossing one of the flights of steps over
the rails at Paddington, I found a
handkerchief with deep black border
marked "Alicia Early" In connection
with this l must mention that four or
five years later, while waiting for q
friend in Manchester station, the Liver
pool train came in, and I noticed half
dozen large travelling trunks turned
out of the van on which EARLY" was
marked in large letters, and small
parcel had "Alicia EARLY" written on it,
with Passenger from Rio Janeiro."
While staying at Oxford in COM
memoration week a party of us had
been to see the boat races, and were
resting under the trees in the Broad
Walk when four or five Young men
passed with a huge mastiff at their
heels. Nearly opposite to us the
animal rolled down on the grass,
scrambling and scratching in usual dog
fashion. AS was admiring the dog I
caught thesglitter of something bright
turned over by one of its massive paws,
and on going to the spot found an old
fashioned double gold locket, the ring
of which was broken. On opening the
locket a small photograph of young,
grave-faced soldier was on one side; ;
on the other lock of soft baby hair
and the words: MY only son-Sebas-
topol." have the locket in my keep
ing still, and often wonder who was the
tender, heartbroken woman who lost that
precious memento of affection. Vino
knows the TEARS that have been shed
over that little photograph, probably
the only one the poor mother ever
possessed p Chambers Journal.
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Thackeray and the American Girls.

There's something simple in the way
these kind folks regard man; they
read our books as If we were Fielding,
and SO forth. The other night some
men were talking of Dickens and Bull
wer as if they were equal to Shake
speare. and was pleased to find myself
pleased at hearing them praised. The
prettiest girl in Philadelphia, poor
soul, has read "Vanity Fair" twelve
times I paid her great big compi-
ment yesterday, about her good looks,
of course, and she turned round de-
lighted to her friend and said, "Ai
most talla1t," that is something like the
pronunciation. Beatrix has an adorable
pronunciation, and uses little words,
which are much better than wit And
what do you think? One of the
prettiest girls in Boston is to be put
under my charge to 60 to marriage
at Washington next week. We are to
travel together all the way alone
only, only, I'm not going. Young
people when they are engaged here
make tours alone; fancy what the
British Mrs. Grundy would say ct such
an idea!
There was young Quakeress at the
lecture last night, listening about
Fielding. Lord! Lord, how pretty
she was! There are hundreds Of such
everywhere, siry-loaking little beings,
with magnolia- not magnolia, what
is that white flower you make bouquets
of, camilla or came1ia compilations,
and lasting not much longer.
Jhackeray letters IN Scribsev's Nigga
zine.
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A NARROW ESCAPE.
BY DOT DUNKYNNE.


Did you ever feel like fool? I'm
talking to men now, not women: for,
of course, a womanly woman never
thinks of such things, and foolish
woman never thinks at all Well, I've
had that foolish feeling coming on at
intervals for the last six months. until
it's becoming chronic. At times have
an insane sort of desire to hire some
one to kick me, and I'm sure, if 1 saw
an advertisement of "brains to let" I'd
rent job lot and have mine renovated.
I'm an upright sort of man, as men
go, but I believe "men's men, and
they're much of muchness" after all.
1 attend church regularly enough, but
I'm bank cashier, and most of my
Sundays are occupied in studying the
geography of Canada and the revised
extradition treaty; and I've come to
believe that early piety and all the
churches in Christendom don't 60 as
far towards keeping man straight as
good wife does.
First. let me swear, I'll never again
look into pair of dark eyes when my
wife is out of town. It all happened
because Frances went to her
mothers for month. Twas
Sara's second summer, and when
measles and scarlet fever broke out this
side of the river my wife packed up
her clothes and was off to her mothers
before could say Jack Robinson.
slept at home for night or two,
but the house was so lonesome I got
tired 1t was like funeral, and I had
to go around in my stocking feet for
fear of awakening the costs, so I shut
up the house and went down to the ho-
tel.
Lots of people knew boarded there,
and we had a jolly good time. One
day the head waiter, with his usual POM
posity and more than usual flourish,
seated two ladies at my table. I re-
member I was waiting for dessert and
mentally composing letter to my wife,
but, looking up, I forgot all about
both.
The younger lady was handsome
brunette with the blacklist eyes I ever
saw. Eyes that sparkled, danced, and
fairly talked as she looked around
Iscarcely glanced at her companion
aud so was greatly surprised to hear
her say "Mr. Egbert tombstone, I be-
ieve." started, offered my hand and
said, "Why, Miss Dissane, how do you
do? I'm so glad to see you. Been long
in the city,"
Just came; we are on shopping
expedition or We wouldn't be here this
time of year. What have you done
TO yourself, Egbert; you don't look
quite so well as you did when
saw you last?"
ave had time to grow old. Remem.
Der that was six years ago."
"Six years ago! It doesn't seem
possible! But what am thinking OF,
Marjorie, my dear; let me introduce to
you my very dear friend, Mr.. tombstone;
Egbert. my niece, Miss Dissane."
We bowed, and Miss Marjorie gave
me q fascinating smile and q very
fattering glance from her beautiful
eyes Miss Dissane continued:
"Six years! I cannot get over 1t.
Don't you remember Annette? Why
don't you ask about herr"
@Most certainly do. Is there any
snews?"
aOh. yes, indeed! She's married.
ID very well, too, though I always
SSerred you, Esbert You see still
nkou Egbsrt"
thinks. I'm charmed that you do"
PED
.Sasere sad fiirt in those days,
mSngh I always believe it was
ny s''''
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SOUND TRAVELS 1000 NILES.

Many readers will call to mind the
red sunsets of two or three years ago,
and that these we're accounted for by
many persons upon the supposition that
the upper air was filled with fine dust
from the eruption of Krakatau, in Java.
This eruption occurred in the month Of
August, 1883. Whether it were the
cause of the red glow in our sky or noi'
we may never be able to show posi-.
lively. But the distance to which the
sound of that explosion has been heard
was found to have been remarkable.
The same year the English yach'
Marchesa was cruising in the Malay
archipelago as far east as New Guinea.
Mr.. Guillemard, who wrote the journal
of that cruise, relates an interview with
a Dutch missionary in this latter island,
from which it appears that the sound
was heard at that great distance.
"Mr. Van Hasselt was eager to learn
what news we could give of the civil
lied world. We had little to tell, with
the exception of the eruption at
Krakatau. Of the appalling amount
of destruction it had caused we were
unaware, but we gave him the few par
ticulars which had reached Gorontalo.
"He at once told us, greatly to our
establishment, that the noise of the ex-
plosions- had been audible at Dorei,
and, going into the next room, brought
his diary, in which, under the date Of
August q, an entry had been made to
the effect that sounds as of distant
cannonading, which they had imagined
to proceed from volcanic eruption
had been heard that day.
The natives, we were told, had also
noticed it on the previous day-when,
in fact, the outburst was at its height.
By the missionaries the volcano at
Ternate or in some other part of the
Moluccas was supposed to be in action.
It enables one partially to realize the
terrific nature of the eruption when the
map shows Dorei to be distant LILO
miles from the Krakatau. = Youths
Companion.
THE PLANTE.s 50 sLON PROFITS.
Planters, whether of tea, coffee, or
sugar, are much more dependent on
banks than are farmers The expense
Of keeping up one of these plantations
is enormous, owing to the large amount
Of fertilizers required. Then the labor
item in comparison with that required
on farm is very considerable, and
though the gross returns from plan
tation of either tea. coffee, or sugar,
greatly exceed those from the other
tllage of the soil, the gilt is consider
ably taken off the gingerbread when
you have to pay twelve per cent. on al
advances to the bank, in addition to |
two and half per cent. on adisburse-
ments" to the local firm at the seaport |
who ships your product. The fact is
hat since the general introduction of |
beet-root sugar, there is as little profit |
N sugar planting as there is in tea
planting to the planter himself, the
only man who makes the money being
he middleman who handles the stuff. |
The Independent Grocer.
A coUHLETo Of verse, . period Of prose,
may cling to the rock Of ages e. shell
hat survives . deluge.-BslsOer Lyt-
On
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DISHONESTY, duplicity, and fa1ity C
character are business miS3AkeuI
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A couHLErof verse, . period Of prose,
may cling to the rock Of ages e. q shell
that survives . deluge. Bulscer Lyt-
ton
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-10
al. .S439, 725 Total. =.

Total. ...... S439 1875 Total. $50. 1877
Now, do not the thoroughbreds beat the
trotters from start to finish? What could
speak stronger than the above figures? AS a
business venture cannot imagin how any
one should fail to see the superiority of the
thoroughbred. The effect OF an increasing
taste for the trotter upon our young men
regard as unfortunate. Its tendency is TO
render them effeminate. There is too much
of this ouggy riding, billiard, pool and card
playing, and then spinaway somewhere be-
hind Il fast horse with Il fast woman by tho
side. Contrast this picture with the one of
the young man who loves rural sports. who
glories in his ignorance of billiards, pool and
cards, who, when boy. spent every holiday
in the woods Look at him as, seated on his
thoroughbred, he endeayors from some hill
top to distinguish the far-ot cry of the
hounds; what picture both horse and man
make. Each alike noble and full of healtbful
ardor and nthusiasm. JOHN BRADFORD